Meter disk



Feb. 4, 1936. F, w HANKS 2,029,319

' METER DISK Filed March 15, 1953 INV EN TOR.

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Patented Feb. 4, 1936 ATENT OFFIE This invention relates to meters, and more particularly meters for measuring water and other liquids, and it is among the objects of the invention to provide improved meter-disk construction. Another object is the provision of means for disk-compensation or regulation. Other objects and advantages will appear as the description proceeds.

To the accomplishment of the foregoing and related ends, the invention, then, comprises the means hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims, the following description and the annexed drawing setting forth in detail certain structure embodying the invention, such however being illustrative of but a few of the various ways in which the principle of the invention may be employed.

In said annexed drawing:-

Fig. 1 is a plan view and Fig. 2 a transverse sectional detail of a meter-disk in accordance with the invention; Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one of the elements therein; Figs. 4 and 5 are transverse sectional and perspective views respectively, of a modification; and Figs. 6 and 7 are corresponding views of another modification.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, there is shown a disk-member 4 of shape desired, preferably flat, having a cut-out 4a for coacting with a casing-plate, and having the hemispherical bearing-members 5A, 53, these being assembled by suitable means, as pin 42.screw-threadedly engaging with a nut 48, which may have slots for a spanner screw driver or thelike and may engage against a washer 49, while a shoulder 50 on the pin 42 may engage against a suitable washer 5!, the washers and nut being accommodated in recess in the respective members. Positioned between the hemispherical members 5A, 5B, or at least such as to be eifective therebetween, is a compensative means for taking up looseness occasioned by Wear. Such means may comprise an expansible member, for instance in the form of a ring 52 seating between hemispherical member 513 and the disk 4. As shown in Fig. 3, such ring member 52 may be of suitably resilient rubber capable of being compressed on the initial assembly of the hemispherical members and disk, and being subsequently expansible on occasion of requirement of compensation, the nut 48 being then suitably turned back to allow the ring member 52 to' expand and correspondingly restore the space-distance from hemispherical surface to hemispherical surface as engaging the bearing-seats in the casing of the meter. Compensative adjustment may in such manner be attained in accordance with the conditions encountered in any given meter, as occasioned by wear against the bearing seat. Instead of a rubber expansive ring member, I may also employ a ring member 52 of metallic construction, 5 expansiveness being provided by means of suitable shaping or upstanding resilient tongues or projections of the ring member, as for instance a slight cupping or coning thereof, as illustrated more particularly in Figs. 4 and 5. With a suitably shaped metallic member of non-corrodible metal, as brass, bronze, stainless steel, nickel alloys, etc., again, a compensative take-up may be attained, the expansible ring 52 being capable of exerting its expansive or spreading force when 15 the nut 48 is suitably turned back on the stem 42, as required in any given instance. A metallic member may also be coated with rubber or have a rubber gasket supplied for each face to further insure water-tightness, if necessary. In some cases, if necessary, water-tightness may be attained by providing a recessed edge-seat 5' for the metal ring. If desired, an expansible element of suitable size maybe inserted between the hemispherical members 5A and 5B. This may be a suitable spring or spring washer or ring, as for example element 52", Fig. 7. As interposed between the members 5A and 53, such expansible element can be centered by stem 42, the central hole 53 fitting thereon. If preferred, the stem 42 may be provided with a shoulder 54 (Fig. 6) against which the expansible ring 52 may rest, instead of directly against member 5A as above indicated, thus more particularly concentrating the expansive thrust onto the lower hemisphere 5B. Fig. 6 also illustrates how a combination of expansible elements may be employed together, as member 52 between the hemispheres 5A and 5B, and member 52' or 52 between disk 4 and hemisphere 5B.

It will thus be seen that a construction is secured afiording reliability and uniformity of operation even under adverse conditions, and allowing of ready adjustment or repairs.

Other modes of applying the principle of the invention may be employed instead of the details disclosed, change being made as regards such details provided the means stated in any of the following claims, or the equivalent of such, be employed.

I therefore particularly point out and distinctly claim as my invention:-

1. In a device of the character described, a disk member, hemispherical members for mounting the same, resilient means for spreading said hemi- 55 spherical members apart, and means for holding said disk-member and hemispherical members in assembly and providing adjustment of the spreading means.

2. In a device of the character described, a disk member, hemispherical members for mounting the same, an expansible ring member for urging the hemispherical members apart, and means for holding said disk-member and hemispherical members in assembly and providing adjustment of the expansible ring member.

3. In a device of the character described, a disk-member, hemispherical members for mounting the same, an annular expansive spring element between said hemispherical members, and means for holding said disk member and hemispherical members in assembly and providing adjustment of the annular expansive spring element.

4. In a device of the character described, hemispherical disk-mounting members, a disk carried thereby, resilient means for compensatively urging one of the disk-mounting members away from the disk, and means for holding said disk and hemispherical disk-mounting members in assembly and providing an adjustment of said resilient means.

5. In a device of the character described, a disk member, hemispherical members for mounting the same, an annular expansive spring element between one of said hemispherical members and said disk member, and means for holding said disk member and hemispherical members in assembly and providing adjustment of the annular expansive spring element.

6. In a device of the character described, a disk member, hemispherical members for mounting the same, a spring ring member between the disk member and an adjacent hemispherical member, and means for holding said disk-member and hemispherical members in assembly and providing adjustment of said spring ring member.

7. In a device of the character described, a disk-member, hemispherical disk-mounting members for mounting the same, threaded-stem takeup means for holding the disk-mounting members together and regulating a separation between, and an expansive spring member about said stem and bearing against at least one of the diskmounting members.

8. In a device of the character described, a disk-member, hemispherical disk-mounting members for mounting the same, threaded-stem takeup means for holding the disk-mounting members together and regulating a separation between, shoulder-means on said stem, and an expansive spring member between said shoulder means and one of said disk-mounting members.

9. In a device of the character described, a disk-member, hemispherical members for mounting the same, annular resilient means for spreading said hemispherical members apart, and means for holding said disk-member and hemispherical members in assembly and providing adjustment of the spreading means.

FREDERICK W. HANKS. 

